Blogging from the Pyrenees

Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees

Blogging from the Pyrenees

Adventures and information on the Spanish Pyrenees

Hiking in the Pyrenees Articles

Hiking in Ordesa

Safety in the mountains: Why we use Garmin inReach on all our walking holidays

by | Dec 19, 2025

When hiking in the Pyrenees, a sense of freedom and remoteness is part of the experience. Wide valleys, high passes and quiet trails are what draw people here. At the same time, these are serious mountains, where weather can change quickly and mobile phone coverage is not always reliable. A Garmin InReach allows you to call for help if something goes wrong and for people to see your location and keep an eye out for you.

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Hike Pyrenees online brochure

by | Apr 30, 2013

The Hike Pyrenees brochure is now available to view online. We’ve used the issuu website to publish the online version and it’s a great magazine/brochure reading tool. You can also download it as a pdf. If you prefer of course you can always order a...

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Hiking from Sallent de Gállego

by | Apr 27, 2013

Our friends Dave and Elena are over at the moment with their daughter Evangeline. We all went hiking from Sallent up to the embalse at La Sarra which is a lovely spot. Isabel and Evangeline went in the backpacks and loved it. The spring flowers are really getting...

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Snowshoeing in the Ordesa Valley

by | Mar 27, 2013

Ordesa has had lots of snow this winter and you can snowshoe straight from the Pardera car park where there’s several feet of snow. The valley looks beautiful in the snow and I’ve been over there a couple of times in the past few weeks – one time...

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Hiking to an iced up Ibon de Piedrafita

by | Jan 13, 2013

Ibon de Piedrafita is in a beautiful spot under the cliffs of the Sierra de Partacua and yesterday I headed up there with Berute – a friend from the village. In summer this is a really popular walk with guests on our walking holidays but I’d never seen it...

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Favourite photos of 2012

by | Dec 29, 2012

2012’s drawing to a close – it’s been a great year here in the Pyrenees and I thought it would be a good time to show some of our favourite photo’s from this summer – there’s lot’s of photos of our guests so see if you can...

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Thanks for a great walking season

by | Nov 1, 2012

The summer 2012 season is over and we’d like to thank all of our guests for making it another fantastic summer for Hike Pyrenees. We got up same great peaks, saw fantasic flowers and wildlife, ate plenty of tapas and had a fantastic time showing you all the...

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Peña Roya and Peña Blanca

by | Oct 4, 2012

I’ve wanted to do some of the peaks of the Sierra de Tendeñera and yesterday finally got up there. It’s a magnificent 12km long ridge with imposing cliffs on both the north and the south. We approached from Ibon de Asnos up the north slopes. It was pretty...

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First walking holidays of the season

by | Jun 12, 2012

The season is well underway here in the Pyrenees and we’ve had a couple of Lakes & Valleys guided walking holidays as well as lots of guests doing self guided walking holidays. We’ve been blessed with some fantastic early season weather with lots of...

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Hiking to Pelopin (2007m)

by | Apr 28, 2012

The peak of Pelopin can be reached from the Cotefablo pass which is half way between Biescas and Torla. The pass is over 1400m so it makes a great place to quickly get up into the mountains from. Friday afternoon I was suffering from cabin fever after a week of bad...

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